Improvement in wagon-seats



No.l5l,665.

l. E. lHDPPINIi. Wagon-Seats.

Patented June 2, 1874.

UNITED STATES APATENT OFFICE.

JOHN E. HOPPING, OF PRINCETON, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN WAGON-SEATS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 151,665, dated June 2,1874; application filed March 7, 1874.

To all whom fit may concern Be it known that I, JOHN E. HOPPING, ofPrinceton, in the county of Bureau and State of Illinois, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Spring-Seat for Vagons; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, ret erence being had to the accompanying drawings,and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part ofthis specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a spring-seat for wagons or other vehicles, as will be here `inaftermore fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make and use the saine, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which-Figure l is a plan View of my improved spring-seat. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal section ot' the same through the line a' x, Fig. l; andFig. 3 is a transverse section through the line y y, Fig. I.

My seat is composed of au equal number of bottom slats, A, and topslats, B, connected, at or near the ends, to cross-bars O O, runningcrosswise between the top and bottom slats. Between the slats are placedspiral springsI D D, which make both the top and bottom slats convex. Onthe under side of the seat thus formed, a suitable distance from eachend, is secured a cleat, G, running crosswise of the seat.

The number of springs D between each pair of slats may vary, accordingto the size of the seat and the number of persons it is intended tohold.

In using the seat on an empty wagon it is simply laid across the box thesame as an ordinary board, the cleats G G preventing it from slippingoff from the box. In using it on a loaded wagon it is laid on top of theload the same as a cushion. It can be used on any kind of load where aperson can ride.

Being` composed of double convex slats running lengthwise of the seat,and corresponding on top and bottom, the ends of the slats all boltedsolid and convexed by means of the spiral springs, the seat obtainsgreat elasticity and durability, each slat yielding entirely independentof the others, and only imparting the strain from one to the other bybeing convex and having solid bearings at the ends.

I am aware that slats and springs are used in bed-bottoms, the slats andsprings adapted for a bed, and I do not, therefore, claim such device;but

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The carriage-seat composed of a series of slats, A B, having the springDbetween them, and cleats G beneath the lower slats to hold the seat inposition, all combined as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signaturein presence ot' two witnesses this 27th day of February, 1874.

JOHN E. HOIPING.

Vitnesses:

C. C. FULLER, J AsoN Y. ELLIS.

